Reviews

Dark Heresy Second Edition: Core Rulebook by Tim Flanders, Dan Abnett, Owen Barnes, Tim Cox, Andy Hoare, Jordan Goldfarb, Max Brooke, John Dunn, Tim Huckelbery

arthurbdd's review

3.5

The Fantasy Flight-era of the 40K RPGs was getting a bit creaky by the time DH2's core rulebook came out, but this does a decent job of providing a version of the game with a somewhat higher power level than DH1 assumed. That said, DH1 was essentially a reskinned WFRP, and if you approached it like that it worked fine so long as you accepted suitably WFRP-ish low-powered and grubby assumptions, and one questions whether Fantasy Flight's attempts to patch the system to support higher-powered play was in the long run misguided, especially since Wrath & Glory handles such play more elegantly now. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/dark-heresy-2nd-edition-under-the-influence/